Let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-workers

Good thinking going to her supervisor too. Productive!

Good god, E! I'm glad you said something. Teach me your ways!

Today I was talked to (note: not "had a conversation") for 20 minutes because I had not stapled a group of sheets before putting them into a three ring duotang. Then, my trainer decided that she had to resign because I had told her that I "know everything," which I had not implied in the slightest. Un/fortunately for me, she did not resign. Yesterday she came into the bathroom mumbling "I am wasting my time training this stupid bitch" and told me she was allowed to talk, when I told her I was in one of the stalls. I tried to explain I just wanted her to know that she wasn't alone, but she kept mumbling about how she can talk if she wants to. We don't have an HR department & she has worked with the president for 25 years. Sigh.

yeesh

Fucking hell. Is there absolutely nowhere for you to go to lodge a formal complaint?

No path I can really see, because the other woman I report to (another President's friend) hears & ignores it all. So I keep my head & tone level, try not to cry when I am told that I have to "be spoken to like a nine year old," and quietly investigate ways to complete projects without asking my trainer questions (email coworkers, find old examples.) Today I told her "if you resign you are doing that because you want to, not because I asked you to. I would like to continue to be trained on this job because I feel I will be able to do this really well in the future." I know I will never get in trouble because I am doing a great job, it's just taking me twice as long because this asshole sits across from me and repeats herself all day. One question = ten minutes of rambling, repetitive drivel that often contradicts and/or escalates in hostility if any follow up question is asked.

Most of these outbursts happen after the VP (brought in by the Pres a few years ago) dumps a project on my trainer's lap. I could psychoanalyse the shit out of this situation. I should write a book.

Would read, especially if you interspersed the analysis with makeup tips and pictures of your nails.

I hope that didn't come across as though I think that's all you would offer in a book. It would be a good book anyway! I just like your nails.

I'm painting my nails right now, hah! The Devil Wears Nail Art. xp

I've been too exhausted to do anything other than rant about my trainer & paint my nails lately, so no offence taken! ;)

Jesus Christ ffm. That makes me want to go to your office and kick that lady in the face.

Not the nail art thing. The meanness :)

MEMO TO COWORKERS OF ENBB AND FFM: these ladies are fucking rad and know their shit and you better bow the fuck down or I will kick you all in the face.

Sometimes as I listen to her talk I do fantasize about just pushing her face into the wall. I'm almost two feet taller than her though, it wouldn't be right.

that's where you are wrong. It would be incredibly right

Next time I will try to channel my inner ENBB and be more firm about the whole situation, but this woman escalates like a madman.

Idk,, I think I would take her side and say, in a low and creepy tone, with your face right in hers, something super fucking psycho and violent and threatening - no one will believe her, it'll make her look super crazy, AND she'll be shit-scared of you.

Win/win imo!!

You guys, I'm burnt out at my job and I am wanting to think about starting to look for something new, but your stories scare the shit out of me. They're weird around my office, but nothing even remotely like FFM and ENBB's coworkers.

Idk,, I think I would take her side and say, in a low and creepy tone, with your face right in hers, something super fucking psycho and violent and threatening - no one will believe her, it'll make her look super crazy, AND she'll be shit-scared of you.

Win/win imo!!

!!

this made me LOL harder than anyone has LOLed before.

Christ, FFM and ENBB, my heart beat faster just reading both of those.

Jesus these ppl tho

I'm always gobsmacked by how patently TERRIBLE, horrible human beings somehow end up in the good graces of some idiotic manager/VP somewhere and live to spend 20 years ruining coworkers lives without reprisal.
I know of two such people in my office. Thankfully I haven't crossed paths with either professionally but christ, the stories.

^^^^^^ this!!!

xp to lex: i used to often think of doing this with horrible customers, like, just saying something totally horrendous, bc i knew no one would actually believe them and it would probably drive them crazy

It's a definite dream move! When I was a lonely kid I found letting my bully "catch me" looking at her then looking away and smiling to myself drove her nuts. She came up to me a few times asking "what's so funny?" and seemed thrown off in general. May employ.

I told a coworker last week that grownups dont accost other grownups in corridors, did the trick tbph

One time when we dropped some hints (she & I sit in a quad with two others) she started whining about how we "don't understand her pain"(!) and how if no one wanted to talk, fine, she wouldn't talk in a 30 minute drama fit. I wish I thought your line would work, d!

eyebrows, im tellin you, its in the eyebrows

Her pain??

Oh yes, her pain. IIRC it was because the VP had dropped an assignment on her lap and we stopped listening/responding after about 30 minutes of bitching to us about how busy she was/how she didn't have time for it.

It kind of sounds like she's having a nervous breakdown, tbh. (Not that it would excuse anything if she was, and maybe I'm naive in thinking that people can't be so utterly horrible without some major cause.)

They totally can, unbelievably and depressingly.

I do think that might be the case. I often feel bad for her when she's just being stressed/sad and not overtly dickish.

it's really terrible working a job where you don't have the ability to make formal complaints. at my last place, the HR guy sat across from the CEO, who would demand to find out what employee was complaining so he could call them and ream them out for complaining about other personnel rather than doing their jobs. it was awful.

so grateful to work for a huge corporation rn.

do yo u know this person ?

the snagger - When assigned a task to do she makes it seem like her completing the task is dependent on someone else doing some associated task first before she can continue, thus not doing the task and blaming someone else for it when really it was not necessary to make the tsk dpendent on that other person at all, they just didnt want to do the task.

All my coworkers!

Talked same coworker who hated my guts last Friday off the ledge yesterday. Lady needs a vacation. No one should be yelling on the phone at 6:30 Thursday!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive-aggressive_behavior

President told all my coworkers not to contact me til he'd had a chance to call me (he appeared in the office at noon to explain the layoffs to those who remained employed,) but then never called me. A pox on them all. Many talked to me anyway. :)

Back at the end of January, my department (marketing) received an email from Exec. VP A, about an industry event that we're cosponsoring. She asked for help in promoting it, and said that she, our CEO, another VP, and Reg. Mgr. B would be attending.

Since part of my job involves our social media properties, I asked who could cover this event for us, and was told to reach out (ugh) to the attendees, so I contacted Reg. Mgr. B, who agreed to blog and tweet for us.

Yesterday, our CEO sends an email to Reg. Mgr. B telling her about the show and letting her know that lots of potential prospects will be there. Reg. Mgr. B replies, saying she's excited because she's going and will be covering for social media for marketing.

CEO contacts Exec. VP A and says, "Do you know anything about Reg. Mgr. B going to this show?" Exec. VP A - who originally gave me the list of attending people that included Reg. Mgr. B - says, "Nope, I don't know anything about it."

Now, the CEO is up my boss's ass (he's an SVP) asking, "Did someone in your department tell Reg. Mgr. B to attend this show? I need to be in the loop on these things."

Utter insanity. Luckily I save every email.

facepalm

stuff like this just turns me into

http://theinfosphere.org/images/thumb/1/11/Roberto.jpg/225px-Roberto.jpg

guy in my office talks and acts like a sports announcer. always slightly too loud, makes a point of reading unfunny things on twitter aloud, constantly peppers his speech with stuff like 'my buddy x does _______; really great guy'. uses the word bro without irony. is a jets fan.

today he was training this new employee on something fairly simple and it just went on and on and on. he may or may not be a bad person, but either way i want him to shut the fuck up.

jets fan. say no more

Now, the CEO is up my boss's ass (he's an SVP) asking, "Did someone in your department tell Reg. Mgr. B to attend this show? I need to be in the loop on these things."

Utter insanity. Luckily I save every email.

Yep, Ive had this. Same applies. Email and save it all. Couple weeks ago boss accused me and the office manager of insisting "for months" that some credit we were due from a carrier was $25k worth.

What I'd actually said that IF I was calculating it right - and I was not at all sure I was and needed to confirm - that figure would be right. I also had only said this TWO DAYS EALIER. Months my ass. I showed the office mgr the email and she went into him with it. No apology for bein wrong, of course. Hes never wrong.

some guy from my team left when we moved our offices, but now he's back after about 5 months on a freelance project. he now stops by every day to chit chat with everyone here like he never left, and his contract was just extended. i can't help but to loathe this guy, he's a 30-something coddled mamas boy who still lives at home and can work whenever he pleases. if i spent 5 months unemployed i'd be living on the streets.

i'll have to get over it at some point, but everytime he stops by i'm filled with rage. on the one hand i'm resentful of the easy life he gets to lead, and on the other i don't respect the dude ... acts with this self-assured confidence but has never even lived on his own. whatever, i'll get a handle on it.

god, everyone is so fucking TOUCHY here sometimes! it's driving me nuts. small sample:

last november, i worked with this big shot guy over in the big shot Office of Big Shots and Big Shot Apprentices to draft up a webpage. it was supposed to be posted last november, but due to another big shot being a big asshole, the whole thing got delayed until this coming monday.

so, today i email the guy who helped me draft up the webpage just to remind him that we're going to post this thing on Monday. i say, "I'm checking in to make sure that we're ready to go on Monday. We've already mocked up the page, so it should be ready to go." i was saying that mainly for benefit of other cc'd people on the email, since they didn't know that the page was already mocked up. i then go on to thank him for his help in this project, bla bla bla.

i get back this response:

"What do you mean, "We mocked up the page that will appear on Challenge.gov"?

I prepared it weeks ago."

so since he's an up and comer in the Office of Neurotic Assholes, i apologized for not being clear and said that yes, he mocked it up weeks ago (even though it was actually ME who prepared all the language for it, but never mind).

ugh, come on weekend just get here

at least it'll get here a day early in a week or two :\ :/

there's this guy on my team who laughs after everything he says. like, riotous, uproaring laughter after the most pointless, mundane things. it's not like he's saying anything funny, or anyone else is saying anything funny. he wants everyone to laugh with him without making the effort to be funny.

of course i dislike him after he called the obscuro music stuff i hung up in my cube "pretentious" in some snide, backhanded way (and yet he has Gustav Klimt postcards in his). in meetings he sits like he's the king of my department, and a few times i saw him staring at me with these really creepy eyes. whenever i'm talking to someone he'll act weird and try to bring attention to himself like darting around and making funny faces, or if I'm talking to one of the girls in my department he'll sneak up out of nowhere and try to bring the conversation to himself. i think this dude is nuts, but everyone seems to like him because he forces everyone to laugh with him. i just want to say one day, "yeah, you're right, turning a doorknob is fucking hilarious"

Our malpractice insurance provider sent us a notice that on our renewal application, we'd failed to provide the number of hours that my boss works per year.

Last week, I'd given the application to my boss and put a flag on the # of hours area so she would be sure to fill it out, but she ignored it and mailed it off.

Her reaction to their request for the missing information: "Oh, argh. Why do they need to know that?"

She says that a lot.

When the bank wanted her home address when setting up our credit card system, when her mortgage company asked for her addresses for the last X years, when a bar association asked for her membership number on their membership renewal form. She just skips the question if she thinks it's dumb.